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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
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Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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